Call Center Performance

Posted on August 13, 2021 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

By Colin Taylor Last spring when the Covid19 pandemic began, companies were forced to make many changes to how they operated. With the offices closed, they sent their agents to work from home. This was a learning experience for the center leadership, the company, and the agents. According to the research we completed in May […]

Posted on April 08, 2021 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Quality • Quality Assurance

By Turaj Seyrafiaan Quality versus Efficiency? And the winner is … Anyone that has ever worked in a contact center, knows the importance of efficiency. In a typical contact center, we measure efficiency from every angle: Number of contacts per hour, Average Handle Time (AHT), After Call Work (ACW) and Agent Occupancy just to name […]

Posted on August 26, 2020 in Abandon rate • Best Practices • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • FCR

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By Turaj Seyrafiaan In today’s contact centers the concept of First Contact Resolution or FCR for short, is well known.  And many understand the value of high FCR scores both in terms of customer satisfaction and loyalty as well as reduced operational costs.  Most contact center want to improve on this element, but how?  Where […]

Posted on May 14, 2020 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Forecasting- WFM • WFM

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‘ By Peg Ayers If you had a way to increase sales by 20%, be 21% more profitable and increase your customer satisfaction scores by 10%, would you do it?  How about improving employee retention by 24-59%, lowering absenteeism by 41% and increasing productivity by 17%?  According to the Gallup Organization, you could do all […]

Posted on April 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Disaster Recovery • Emergency • Employee Experience • People management • WFM

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by JD Fairweather If you asked any contact center manager two months ago about their business continuity plan, they’d likely opine on their facility’s readiness to address just about any emergency scenario. These same managers have seen their expertise and resolve put to the test in recent weeks due to COVID-19. And with effects of […]

Posted on January 17, 2020 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

Tags: Attrition• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Leadership• Training• WFM

by JD Fairweather For many contact centers, the road to 2020 is strewn with unfulfilled New Year resolutions from the previous decade, abandoned optimization projects and discarded digital transformations pave the way. The good news is it’s not too late to course correct. So, looking ahead to a simpler, resolute future, here are three areas […]

Posted on November 18, 2019 in Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance

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By Turaj Seyrafiaan More and more contact centers see the value of Quality Assurance in improving their operation both in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. However, in most cases the effectiveness of the process is measured internally based on what the organization believes to be the right approach or behavior. This internally focused approach could […]

Posted on May 07, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • Turnover

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By Colin Taylor I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window […]

Posted on April 16, 2019 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Positions • retention

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By Colin Taylor I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures. […]

Posted on April 05, 2019 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Metrics • TRG

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AHT: the Most Misunderstood Metric in Call or Contact Centers By John Cockerill Average handle time is a wonderful tool. Everybody uses it and they believe they use it correctly. It’s a good measure particularly when you’re looking in a specific channel as to what is the midpoint of all of the call (contact) lengths that […]